Shout About Alcohol

posted by Jodie Alcopops on Jun 23

I have never understood why some health guidelines state that you can have the occasional drink when pregnant. It is common sense that if you are drunk then the little one inside you will be to and all you are doing is putting your babies life at risk!

So the government have realised a statement that now states that alcohol should be avoided altogether! Not only should you not drink alcohol if you are pregnant you should also give up on the pop if you are trying to conceive.

It is pretty disturbing to read that 9% of expecting mothers drink more than the recommended limit. Heavy drinking whilst pregnant can cause retardation, poor memory and, in the worst cases, facial abnormalities…would you really take this risk just for having a drink???

With these new guidelines in place hopefully it will cause less confusion on what your limits are and it is now crystal clear if you are pregnant or trying to conceive ditch the alcohol!!!

posted by Jodie Alcopops on Jun 22

Ok so i usually tell you what’s hot and not when it comes to alcohol but if like myself you have Monday blues and still nursing a hangover from the weekend here is a few tips on how to wake up feeling fresh and not head sore!

One thing that i am bad for especially on Friday’s is not eating tea before i go out. I usually finish work and go for a drink and then there is no stop in me and having tea slips my mind. This is why i usually retire early with my head in the toilet and wake up feeling like i have had a round with Mike Tyson, not nice at all!!! So you really should make sure that you eat before you start on the drinks, even if it just a couple of slices of toast to line your stomach. Not only will you wake up feeling ok you will be able to stay out and play later as the drink will not go to your head as fast.

If i know that i have a busy day after a night on the razz i will purposely stay clear of red wine and brandy as these drinks cause the more severe hangover.

Easier said than done this one but try and have a glass of water in between drinks. Alcohol is bad for making you dehydrate hence the pounding head in the morning so just a few glasses of water in the night to keep you hydrated will help you in the morning!

Try and get as much fresh air as possible especially before you jump in a cab home! I had one very bad experience where i felt perfectly fine then jumped straight into a cab to get instant head spin when the heat hit me and the next thing i was being sick in the taxi and the worst is to come, i am actually squirming in my seat typing this but i was on a date and the sick went straight into his lap, whoops! Trust me i have learnt a lot from this experience and will never get straight into a car without standing outside for a few minutes first.

Drink 1 pint of water washed down with 2 headache tablets when your night is over. I do this without fail every time i have had a drink and seriously you will not wake up feeling dehydrated or hung-over.

If you stick to this and you still wake up with a hangover i would be pretty concerned about the amount you drank the night before! There are ways to cure a hangover if you wake up with one.

Try some of the below to help you through the day:

A fry-up and i don’t mean drive down the road to your nearest greasy grub house actually cook the fry up yourself and grill the food. You will only feel worse if you eat a calorie packed fry-up that is under cooked and fried.

Caffeine for an emergency quick fix like coffee, coke or tea. I have done this before but you will only feel like you have more energy for short term.

Drink water, water and more water. As i keep banging on you have a hangover because you are dehydrated!

Eat fruit to replace lost vitamins and boost your energy levels.

If everything is failing i would suggest just going to sleep!

If you can think if any magical cures you can share please let me know???

posted by Jodie Alcopops on Jun 15

I attempted to write a post yesterday but my hangover got the better of me and eating chocolate all day was much more appealing than trying to work a computer!

As you can see from my last post i was pretty excited for the weekend and drinking Sex On The Beach cocktails!!! So as planned we started off with the cocktails and then headed to a curry house and drank white wine, note-to-self never ask for house white wine in a curry house as it arrives in a fish bowl with no label and looks likes a urine sample from the doctors and funnily enough tastes like one!!!

Anyway less of that…The night was going well until it come to drinking shots time, Sambuka shots yes, Absinthe shots big NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

My first experience with Absinthe was when i was 18 and sat in bar, i had my cocky head on and believed that i could drink anything, i mean it couldn’t be much stronger than my blue WKD that i was drinking! Ok that’s what i thought at the time and o how wrong i was! I knocked the shot back in one and the next thing i know i was leaning over the bar struggerling to breathe and violently being sick, all that in the space of 5 seconds! Classy! Since my ever so embarrassing experience i have purposely stayed clear of Absinthe on a night out and have no intensions of ever drinking the dreaded poison again!

That’s why on Saturday when my mates got a round of Absinthe in i proudly rejected and watched in horror as they downed there shot. There faces said it all when they finished and so did there behaviour, if you want to pull your crazy ex who will not leave you alone, who you have been trying to avoid for months then Absinthe will make you think there Megan Fox and you will be straight in there arms again…well until the alcohol is out of your blood stream, that’s what happened to one of the guys i was out with on Saturday and another one spent the rest of the night lay on a bathroom floor with there head in the toilet, nice!!!

So if you want my opinion i think your bloody crazy if you drink Absinthe and if you have never tried it before don’t try now as you are not missing out! I love shots like Sambuka, Tequila and After Shock and these are all pretty harsh but they taste like water compared to Absinthe.

If you have had any bad experience with Absinthe let us know?????